The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction.
Hal Prince mentions doing a new musical with someone named "Steve" about marriage. This is "Company," which he did with Stephen Sondheim in 1970. Verdon mentions a musical "Steve" did with "Dick." This is "Do I Hear a Waltz?" which Sondheim wrote with Richard Rodgers.
Director/Producer Hal Prince is depicted with his eyeglasses resting on the top of his head, above his eyebrows. Prince often did this, and many photographs of him show him this way.